Feb finish...

A finish for February.... yeah!

On Monday I thought I better try and finish something for February and wa la!!! one Overnight bag pattern designed by Melly and Me, bought as a kit two years ago at the Melb quilt convention from the lovely ladies at the Blueberries stand... it will be handy for travelling....

it even has feet to stand on....

so the bottom won't get dirty.....

and here is a sneak peek at another finish but it still secret.....

so that's two finishes for this month... now I have something to tick off my list.....

Back home again.

we had a lovely few days out on the boat nice and relaxing, I got a bit of sewing done and DH caught some good fish.... 

can't believe I'm stitching with one strand of silk thread.... so different to DMC...... 

now we have some work in the garden to do......

as you can see the roses and the lawns need some attention....

and the orchard....

and I need to finish something for Feb.... hmm better go and make a cuppa and think about that.....

Happy holidays....

This weekend has been a really fun one ...... we started our annual holidays last Friday... well my DH did...  you don't get annual leave when you're housewife..... lol.... we always try and have a long weekend or at least a day or two in Feb because it is our wedding anniversary on the 18th and this year he hopes to take two weeks..... so we have headed out in our boat ....

Saturday we went to the local farmers market and bought some sour dough bread.... homemade of course and some home grown vegies and fruit, if we were going home that day we would have had three new chooks but you can't take chooks on a boat now can you...... can't see why not ....lol....


Then we cruised over to Metung and had a long slow lunch at the pub, sorry no pics but it was delish, the food always tastes better when your sitting on a verandah looking out over the water.... so spoilt....

After lunch we travelled around to our favourite spot....

the Barrier Landing and lazed around the rest of the day fishing and sewing..... we all know who was doing what.....

I was sewing of course......and before anyone asks we celebrated 34 years.... and yes they have been 34 great years, I wouldn't change any of them.....

Some lovely gifts....

Some Christmas gift pictures at last...... 

my dear friend Melissa (no blog) gave me this gorgeous Sue Spargo kit...

the fabric and trims are so colourful and rich...

can't wait to start this one........

My friend Sharon (no blog) gave me this beautiful cross-stitch sampler ....... which she suggested I start on January 1st..... as if I had nothing else to sew...lol...

complete with fabric and threads and a needle - all ready to go......

the linen is a lovely rich dark green and the threads are silk.....

of course I had to start it on the first day of 2012....

the thread was so lovely to use, I can see myself actually finishing this one ......

Sharon has the idea that I should have it done by 2013.... we'll see.....

I have also been stitching this little cutie over the past month.....

another gift from Sharon and (another no blogger) Helen back in 2005...

It looks really sweet with those special little ceramic buttons on it, I am planning on getting it framed.

It is a great feeling ticking another project off my ufo list!!

Have dusted off my Christmas tin so I can cart around my next project...

a Christmas project of course....

finally getting to stitch my "Tis the season" stitchery....

Way way behind the girls in the stitch-a-long group, most of them finished theirs last year as we were meant to, I figure better late than never......